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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

This included SysAdmin magazine, which contained articles from various experts including Amy Rich, and a couple of advertisements: One was to submit your own articles to the magazine for publication (by writing to the editor, Rikki Endsley) and another was to attend USENIX conferences in the US and learn directly from the experts!

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

This included SysAdmin magazine, which contained articles from various experts including Amy Rich, and a couple of advertisements: One was to submit your own articles to the magazine for publication (by writing to the editor, Rikki Endsley) and another was to attend USENIX conferences in the US and learn directly from the experts!

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Hello from Europe!

Speed Curve

To overcome some of these challenges, we built our own Java-based player, complete with caching, content compression, and even bandwidth detection so it could switch between video, audio, and text versions of a course depending on network speed. Ultimately the business didn’t survive the dotcom bust, but it lit a spark.

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Consistent caching mechanism in Titus Gateway

The Netflix TechBlog

We introduce a caching mechanism in the API gateway layer, allowing us to offload processing from singleton leader elected controllers without giving up strict data consistency and guarantees clients observe. The cache is kept in sync with the current leader process. How do I know that my cache is up to date? of the data.

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On HTTPS and Hard Questions

Tim Kadlec

To counter this, the school he was visiting sets up their own local caching server. A local caching server, meant to speed up commonly-requested sites and reduce bandwidth usage, is a “man in the middle”. HTTPS, which by design prevents man-in-the-middle attacks, utterly breaks local caching servers.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. There are more challenges for us in addition to scale and diversity: Retaining existing design and behavior. Creating A Performance Culture.

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Performance Mythbusters

Tim Kadlec

In my conversations with designers and developers who don’t optimize, a few of the same myths are constantly brought up. High performance and beautiful design are mutually exclusive. Shopzilla presented information detailing how they were able to speed up their site from 4-6 seconds to 1.5 21% less searches.